Heath Putnam Farms and Meat Quality

What Heath Putnam Farms Does to Ensure Meat Quality

Besides breed, we carefully control diet, age at slaughter, pre-slaughter stress and slaughter method, according to the Austrian system.

Those practices result in meat very high in flavor, monounsaturated fats and antioxidants - so that the meat can keep long and cure well (if you choose to cure your meat). Our pork's monounsaturated fat melts pleasantly on the tongue.

As per the advice of Austrian farmers and food scientists, we avoid finishing on feed high in polyunsaturated fat, like corn or soybeans.

We do what we can to reduce or manage slaughter stress, whether it be on the farm, during transport or before slaughter.

Our slaughterhouse cuts our meat as they do in Austria. This ensures that we waste less pork.

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